Insulating and waterproofing composition



UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE- r i #hhm I i ANTHONY' E. MENUEZ, OF MINNEAPOLIS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-FIFTHS TO JAMES H. SOUTHALL AND WALTER RUAN, BOTH OF ST. ANTHONY PARK, MINNESOTA.

-* INSULATING AND WATERPROOFING COMPOSFT'QN- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,208, dated December 31, 1889. Application filed September 18, 1889. Serial No. 324,349. (No specimens.)

1 To a whom it may concern: findin practical use that best results are obl Be it known that I, ANTHONY E. MENUEZ, tained from the use of the ingredients in the l of Minneapolis, in the county 'of Hennepin proportions named. For some purposes, also, and State of Minnesota, have invented certhe india-rubber may be omitted from the a 5 tain Improvements in Insulating and VVatercomposition and substantially equal parts of 5 5 proofing Compositions, of which the followthe other ingredients used. ing is a specification. To more thoroughly harden the composi- My invention relates to improvements in tion in drying after being used, I prefer to liquid compositions; and its object is to pro add substantially an equal part of a suitable 1o vide improved means for treating cloth, paper, hardening vax, such as beeswax, or paraffine- 6o andsimilarfacrics,wherebytheyare rendered Wax, or half parts of each may be used, if water-proof and electrical non-conductors. I preferred. accomplish this improved result by coating Theseveralingredients above named,which 1 s. id fabrics with the liquid composition hereit is necessary to dissolve before mixing, may

inafter described, which upon drying becomes be treated separately by any suitable solvent, 65 firm and yet elastic, so that the fabric may be Such as those above named or any other that 1 folded or bent Without cracking the coating. may be preferred, and the ingredients so pre- The composition may also be used as a paint pared are then mixed together without heatfor coating solid walls or other objects, so as ing, and form a liquid .which can readily be to render them Water-proof and to make them applied by means of a brush to any object re- 7c electrical insulators. quiring the coating. My invention further consists in the com- Fabric, whether cloth or paper, coated with '1 bination of materials, as hereinafter demy composition, and the composition itself, 3 scribed, and particularly pointed out in the when applied asacoating orpaint,is of special I, claims. value for insulating purposes in various va- Myimproved composition is especially valurieties of electrical Work. able as a coating for paper garments of vari- I claim- 5 ous kinds, for thelining of overcoats and other 1. The combination of shoe-makers wax, outer garments, for tents, awnings, wagongutta-percha, a suitable solvent, and japan, 3o coverings, and a great variety of similar uses substantially in the proportions and for the i where a water-proof or insulating coating or purposes specified.

' 2. The combination of shoe-makers wax,

\ fabric is required.

* My improved composition is made up of the gutta-percha, india-rubber, a solvent, and

following-named ingredients, prepared and japan, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. 8 5

5 combined in the following-described pre- 3. The combination of shoe-makers wax,

ferred manner: Two parts of shoe-makers Wax, three parts of utta-percha, and two gutta-percha, a hardening-wax, a suitable parts ofindia-rubber, separately dissolved by solvent, and japan, substantially as and for means of chloroform, bisulphuret of carbon, the purposes set forth. r, 4c or benzine,and mixedwithtwo parts of japan 4. The combination of shoe-makers War,

of any suitable kind. WVhere more body gutta-percha, india-rubber, beeswax, parafis required for the composition than these fine-wax, a suitable solvent, and japan, subingredients furnish, I prefer to secure it by stantially as set forth.

the admixture with the japan of a dry paint- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 45 powder of such color as it is desired the commy hand this 13th day of September, 1889. position to be-'as, for eXample,lamp-black or ANTHONY E. MENUEZ gas-black, so called.

The proportions of the ingredients above In presence ofnamed may be slightly varied Without mate- A. M. GASKILL,

5: rially departing from my invention; but I T. D. MERWIN. 

